Andrew Hacker

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Andrew Hacker (born 1929) is an American political scientist and public intellectual.

He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Queens College in New York. He did his undergraduate work at Amherst College. This was followed by graduate work at Oxford University, University of Michigan, and Princeton University where he received his PhD degree. Hacker taught at Cornell before taking his current position at Queens.

Current works in progress include a book on higher education in America in collaboration with Claudia Dreifus. Professor Hacker is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books (NYRB).

[edit] Bibliography:

• Hacker, A,, (1992) Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, Scribner. ISBN 0-7432-3824-9

• Hacker, A., (1998) Money: Who Has How Much and Why, Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-684-84662-4

• Hacker, A., (2003) Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Between Women and Men. Scribner. ISBN 0-684-86252-2

[edit] External links

• Professor Hacker's author page at NYRB

• Blurb written by the author for "Mismatch" on the Simon and Schuster Website